Electric

Calif. Nearly Halfway to 2025 Zero-Emission Vehicle Goal

May 5, 2017
• by Staff

The approximately 68,000 zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) sold in California in 2016 represented almost half of the sales level mandated by the state's ZEV mandate for 2025, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The mandate requires about 165,000 zero-emission vehicles sold. About 2.1 million total vehicles were sold in the state in 2016. They represented about 3.5% of sales in 2016.

BMW led sales of electrifed vehicles with 8.9% of its sales, followed by General Motors (7%), Volkswagen (6.2%), Volkswagen (6.2%), and Ford (4.6%).

Trucking shouldn't waste time on pipe-dreams like platooning and autonomous trucks and instead focus on improving logistics and making the trade appeal to young people, said Hendrickson's Jeff Sass while speaking at the Heavy Duty Trucking Exchange in Phoenix.